Pedro de Grimarest

Pedro de Grimarest (1764-12 February 1841) was a Spanish Army general during the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis, and the First Carlist War.

Biography
Pedro Legallois de Grimarest was born in Peniscola, Spain in 1764, and he joined the Spanish Army on 7 July 1777 as a cadet. In 1790, he was sent to Oran to serve as Captain of a company there; in 1791, he defended the city from a Moorish siege. He then served in the French Revolutionary Wars, becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1795. During the Napoleonic Wars, he fought in the 1801 War of the Oranges against Portugal. In 1808, he was among the first to call for a Spanish revolt against the French occupation of the Iberian Peninsula, being promoted to Field Marshal on 11 August 1808 after taking part in the decisive Battle of Bailen. In 1811, he was appointed Military Governor of Minorca, and, in 1813, he was made Governor of Ceuta. In 1820, as Governor of Barcelona, he opposed the liberal 1812 constitution and was sentenced to death by Rafael del Riego's government; however, he fled to France and returned with the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis army sent by Bourbon France to help restore King Fernando VII of Spain to the throne. In 1823, he was promoted to Lieutenant-General, and, in 1832, he sided with the Carlists during the First Carlist War, leading to his imprisonment. In 1834, he was deported to the Mariana Islands, where he was completely isolated for two years. He was ultimately allowed to move to Manila, Philippines, where he died in 1841.